Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-04-16

west of Napa, this last season, ten tons of
prunes were gathered from seventy trees.
Figuring this fruit at $50 per ton Ia low
estimate), the yield of those trees would
be $500. There are usually from 100 to 40
trees to the acre. These ten tons were
therefore the product of two-thirds of an
acre of ground. Four hundred and fifty
dellars an acre for one seasons yield of
prunes is not bad in country where good,
unimproved land is offered at from $25 to
500 per acre and the best improved land
with bearing vines and trees can be bought
for $3.50 to $3.50.
GENERAL NOTES.
Fresno and MERGED farmers are begin
ming to use the steam pillow.
The quality of the salt has much to do
with the finish of prime butter.
A MERGED farmer poisoned over 10000
jack rabbits in the last four years.
Florida perfume makers are buying
orange-blossoms at ten cents pound.
The refuse of wineries is being used with
excellent success by the farmers in Yolo
county.
The weight of any horse should be in
the bone and muscle, rather than in
superabundance of fat.
Seven-tenths of the dry portion of corn
is pure starch, and starch forms about four
fifths of all the human food.
Milk sold at 3 cents quart pays about
the same net as butter sold for % cents a
pound, says an Eastern expert.
The cross of the Dominick and light
Brahma produces flock with small combs,
which natures early and lays large num-
Der of eggs.
The new breed of fowls, the Minorcas,
are claimed to be faced black Spanish,
but are harder than the Spanish. They lay
larger eggs than any other breed of fowls.
Good mules are always in demand, and
as they are more easily raised than horses,
1t would probably pay to make speciality
OF them on large farms where pasture is
abundant.
Don't spend money in buying trees nor
labor in planting them. unless you intend
to care for them afterward. Good trees can
no more be gown without good care than
can good colts or calves.
The richest soil does not always produce
the healthiest vines or finest grapes Ere
quently the land may not be worth So an
acre, while the climate may be worth 500
an acre for grape-growing.- CdLitor-
nidR.
The Santa Rosa Democrat SAYS "Town
Marshal Hoyt preserves grapes perfectly
for months by cutting out all imperfect
grapes from the clusters. Theoretically seal
ing the end of the cluster in hot fruit-wax
and keeping them in cool place
Good farmers differ from poor farmers in
this: The former study economy in all
things. They cultivate no more land than
they can cultivate well. They do not
weaken the result of their forces by diff
fusion, but strengthen them by concentra-
ton.
We curry the horse and keep his skin
clean, yet the COW is overlooked. Consd-
ering The importance of the strictest clean
illness in the dairy, it is duty that should
receive attention. Loose hairs, dirt in the
milk, filthy skin and stable odors will
thus be partially prevented.
newly-discovered Mexican flower is
quite wonder, if reports are true. 1t is
said to be white in the morning, red at
noon and blue at night; and is further
credited with emitting perfume at the mid
die of the day. 1t grows on a tree of the
Isthmus of Tehuantepec.
Such is the demand for the olive oil
made by Ellwood Cooper, of Santa Bar
bara, that he has issued circular stating
that pro rata distribution of his oil must
be made to his customers This demand
for pure article is encouraging to the
owners of young olive orchards.
Californian.
The local insect inspectors are making a
vigorous war on the scale bugs and all
trees coming into this station are subjected
to a close examination. In number of
cases the trees have been DESTROYED. The
white scale" has not made its appearance
since found on one tree in the Wolf or
chard, which was destroyed.-f oD,oaa
Times
Napa sends greeting to Los Angeles with
the information that lemon tree growths
for the year in this vicinity measure as
high as twelve and one-half feet To YER
ify this statement the Napa Land Company
exhibits a shoot taken from the orange
and lemon orchard of Kirk Sackett, south
west of Napa. From the same orchard we
have branch well loaded with full-grown
lemons.-Napa Register.
For borers in the trunk of an apple tree
the best preventive application is soft soap,
made into paste with soda, or air-slacked
lime, and applied especially to the crotch
OF the tree for a short distance up on the
larger branches; the rain will wash it
down far enough to protect the lower part
OF the trunk, and the beetles will not Law
their eggs on the bark thus coated. This
should be put on in May or early in June.
In setting out young orchard the rows
should be numbered and a map of them
made, to indicate the varieties. This is
especially important in orchards for family
use containing tree or two of many va
rieties. Then if the labels are lost or de-
stroyed and tree dies, the owner can at
once know what variety it is and replace it
with the same or one of like season and
character
The buhach plantation Just a few miles
west of MERGED ten years ago was a sandy
desert and to-day it is the garden spot of
MERGED county. What has made it such :?
Why, irrigation and labor The planta-
ton has the most thorough system of irri-
ton of any place in the county. The plan
tation is now employing thirty men who
are engaged in cultivating the plant from
which buhach is manufactured MERGED
Express.
A Colorado alfalfa-grower says that after
experimenting he has come to the conclu-
sion that timothymay with advantage be
sowed on the same ground with the former
plant. From four to six pounds of timothy
to the acre is the ratio used, and the ex-
perimenter says that the hay from this
mixture sells for 81 to s. ton more than
the pure alfalfa. Besides it is claimed that
it makes much better feed, both green and
dry, and that it is far safer to pasture cattle
on alfalfa and timothy mixed than upon
the former alone. This is an experiment
worth trying by California alfalfa-growers.
A Case Not Beyond HELP
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